The biggest victories are the ones that are the hardest to achieve.

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

"La literatura es el último refugio de la humanidad en un mundo cada vez más deshumanizado."

In the world of physics, we often find that the simplest questions are the hardest to answer.

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.